CherryOS Mac Emulator Resurfaces

Clash writes "Following its initial announcement and subsequent controversy last October, Mac emulator CherryOS has finally been released. Its creator, Arben Kryeziu, found himself in hot water last year amid claims the software was simply stolen from the open source PearPC project. With the code now under public scrutiny, it appears that such allegations are true. According to BetaNews, CherryOS boots up in the exact same manner as PearPC, and its error messages and source files are nearly identical. The emulator also includes MacOnLinuxVideo, which is the same driver used by PearPC to speed up graphics. The CherryOS configuration file also closely mirrors that used by PearPC. Trial download without registration found here."

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Re:Wondering how developers feel about this

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Rather than just spreading slander do you have a link that verifies this? Even running strings on something in SFU that matches some OpenBSD utility? Or a website?

OpenBSD is released under the BSD license (hence the name.) See here for details.

So it's OK to use their code and not release the source. PearPC is GPL'd. Big difference.

Don't just throw something out there with no proof... that's just like people claiming MS licensed code from VMS/DEC